Each week we round up the latest N.C. agricultural headlines from news outlets across the state and country, as well as excerpts from the stories. Click on the links to go straight to the full story.
- “Asheville City Market leads NC EBT sales,” Asheville Citizen-Times: Edward Avalos, United States Department of Agriculture under secretary for marketing and regulatory programs, will visit Asheville City Market’s downtown location at 9 a.m. Saturday to meet vendors and learn more about the market’s successful EBT/ SNAP (food stamp) program. …
- “Editorial: Now’s the perfect time to sample food from across region,” Wilmington Star-News: Whether it’s fresh shrimp and flounder, sweet corn and vine-ripened tomatoes, or local honey and wine, this is the time of year that this patch of earth and sea we call home is rewarding us with its bounty. …
- “Susie gives stamp of approval to new law,” Greensboro News & Record: Susie gave her stamp, or rather, paw print of approval to a law she inspired during a bill signing ceremony outside the N.C. Executive Mansion …
- “Fueling up – Mapping biofuels progress in North Carolina,” WRAL-TV: “To better illustrate how the emerging biofuels industry sector is growing toward its 10% in 10 years’ goal, the Biofuels Center of North Carolina produced a map of biofuels activity across the state in May 2010,” the Center said in its latest newsletter. …
- “Heat wave damaging local crops,” WSOC-TV: For one Gaston County farmer, high and dry temperatures mean he has to spend more money, because his corn crop is taking a hit. …
- “NC Gov. Perdue takes interest in beekeeping,” News & Observer: North Carolina’s governor is donning protective gear and collecting honey from bees living on the grounds of the state’s Executive Mansion. …
- “UNC-CH, NCSU, SAS partner for $5M bioterrorism detection effort,” WRAL-TV: UNC-Chapel Hill, North Carolina State and SAS are teaming up to develop a bioterrorism attack detection and warning system through a $5 million federal grant. …
- “USDA rule change would protect growers,” Winston-Salem Journal: The U.S. Department of Agriculture is proposing rule changes to provide significant new protections for poultry growers and livestock producers, the agency announced Friday. …